It’s Good to Be Weird: Joseph Henrich’s ‘WEIRDest People in the World’ Five Years On

Published on March 10, 2025

WEIRDness provides rewards – wealth, the pursuit of happiness, political freedom – that should cause it to succeed, over the long run, in the Darwinian competition between social systems that we call “history.” I hope it wins. WEIRD is good.

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